Skeptophilia

Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being dry and humorless. If you doubt the "undeserved" part, consider scientific name...

Carl Linnaeus was born in Råshult, Sweden, on 23 May 1707.  His father Nils was the minister of the parish of Stenbrohult but was also an a...

I'm always on the lookout for fascinating, provocative topics for Skeptophilia , but even so, it's seldom that I read a scientific p...

Today's post comes to us purely from the "Okay, This Is Cool" department. I've been fascinated with plant taxonomy since l...

The word species  has got to be the mushiest term in all of science. It's one of those situations where you think you know what somethin...

Every once in a while, I'll run across a piece of scientific research that is so creative and clever that it just warms my heart, and I ...

During my junior year as an undergraduate, I had to take a humanities elective as part of my degree requirements and settled upon a class in...

Because I'm tired of doomscrolling on Twitter and getting more and more discouraged about what's going on in the United States right...

My evolutionary biology professor told our class, many years ago, "The only reason we came up with the word species  is because humans ...